Perdue deserves better from the newspaper
Your lead editorial on Nov. 6 presumes to offer advice to Beverly Perdue about how to run the state, now that she has been elected governor despite your opposition to her in both the primary and the general elections.
Your newspaper did a very bad job covering her campaign.
Early on, there was an important rally at the Depot, only about 200 yards from the News & Record building; no reporter covered it, and I do not recall any reference to it in your paper. No reporter came to the celebration in Raleigh when she won the primary. (I was at both events.) Most coverage of her campaign used AP stories.
The most astonishing thing in the editorial is your advice to her to make use of Richard Moore, whose abusive treatment of Perdue was rebuked by former N.C. Gov. Jim Hunt and was used by the Republicans in their own advertising. You repeat Moore’s own praises of himself, when you should be asking whether he may not have mismanaged Harlan Boyles’ legacy. You should be inquiring why the state Treasurer’s office has recently failed to provide its legally required reports of the state pension fund; you will probably be quite surprised to see what has happened to it when they finally appear.
Tom Kirby-Smith
Greensboro
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Take note also that when Obama came to town, to the Train Depot , he made the bottom front of local page then a larger article two days after, tucked deep in the paper. When Palin came to town, she made the front page cover. And that's simply laughable..the Republican candidate for VP gets more coverage than a Dem for President!
Posted on November 12, 2008 7:44 AM
Take note too that the N&R ran large front page Obama pix for days after he won. They added an Obama poster last Saturday. And you likely have noticed the ads on this very blog for the "Commemorative Obama Front Page Plaque".
Posted on November 12, 2008 7:49 AM
Yes, I did notice their efforts AFTER he won...
Posted on November 12, 2008 8:12 AM
For the record, the day after Obama spoke at the Depot, the N&R published the story at the top of the front page.
Posted on November 12, 2008 12:06 PM
Front page of entire paper or of the local section? I distinctly remember being surprised to not see it there, then finding it deeper in the paper. I have tried to find archived headlines on this site to no avail. Where did you find it? Do you have the link?
Posted on November 12, 2008 12:44 PM
As the late Lewis Grizzard used to say, "It only costs a quarter---if you want fairness and accuracy, it'll cost you more".
Posted on November 12, 2008 8:12 PM